In Reply to: Elephant (Gus Van Sant) posted by ephemere on May 7, 2004 at 09:19:10:
Not Gus's strongest effort, but the wife and I watched this one the other night and agreed, it was fairly solid... the way it was shot kept us transfixed, a most ordinary schoolday, with 5 or 6 'points-of-view' shot non-stop, which makes for some tedious sequences, but gives it a very 'real' effect, almost as if Gus decided it was a better way to pull your strings at the climax than had he bothered with character development
From a 'story' viewpoint, I give it a 'B-'... from a 'work of art' viewpoint, I give it a 'B'... better than your average rental
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Follow Ups
- Great filmwork - gwlvrns 13:19:29 05/09/04 (1)
- It's even better than that - ephemere 17:15:18 05/09/04 (0)